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arch 6, 1951 .c. BROWN 2,544,486

GARMENT Filed May 15, 1949 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 FIG. I.

INVENTOR CAROLINE BROWN, F I G. 4. BY

Marchfi, 1953 c, BROWN 2,544,486

GARMENT Filed May 15, 1949 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR CAROLINE BROWN, BY

jw ZL'W ATTO R N EY Patented Mar. 6, 1951 UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT Caroline Brown, New York, N. Y.

Application May 13, 1949, Serial No. 92,990

1 Claim.

This invention relates to an article of wearing apparel and particularly to body garments wherein the patterns forming the garment sections are cut with a minimum amount of waste material and further are so cut that the sections, when stitched together form a garment which fits snugly to the shape of the body of the wearer. The garment may be made of various types of woven or knitted, resilient or elastic fabrics and may embrace underwear, swimming suits, girdles, panties, sport trunks, play underclothes and the fabrics may be cut straight, diagonally left to right or right to left.

An object of this invention is to provide a garment which will conform closely to the shape of the body and readily give without binding to any bending movement of the body of the wearer.

The best embodiment of the invention has been chosen for illustrative purposes, but this embodiment should be viewed as being illustrative only and not as limiting because obviously the invention is capable of other embodiments having revised details of construction, so long as they fall within the orbit of the appended claim.

The invention itself, however, both as to its organization and its method of operation, will best be understood from the following description of a specific embodiment when read in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of a swim suit as it appears upon a wearer.

Fig. 2 is a view of the back of same.

Fig. 3 is a front View of a swim trunk.

Fig. 4 is a View of the cut-out or pattern required to form the garment shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a cut-out or pattern of one half of the garment shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 6 is a cut-out or pattern of the opposite half of the garment.

Fig, 7 is the cut-out or pattern of a crotch member for the swim suit of Figs. 1 and 2 and the swim trunk of Fig. 3.

Figs. 8 and 9 are cut-outs or patterns for the right and left breast supporting pockets for the forms shown in Fig. 1, and

Figs. 10 and 11 are the shoulder straps which also form the arm openings.

Referring in detail to the parts, H designates the right front, side and back of the said swim suit of Figs. 1 and 2. l2 indicates the left front,

side and back of said swim suit. The two sections II and I2 are stitched together along the ed s l3 a d I4 t0 or a 9 1.?! 19 seam 2 l5 (Fig. 1), and are stitched together in the rear at I6 and ll to form a short seam [8 at the rear (Fig. 2), leaving open portions at l9 and 20 to which fastener members are attached to form a slide fastener unit 2|.

A crotch member 22 having attachment edges, cut as shown in Fig. '7, is attached to the said half members II and 42 by stitching the edge A'B of Fig. '7 to the edge and cut A-B of the member I (Fig. 5), and has its edge B-C '(Fig. 7) stitched tothemember H along the cut edge B-C (Fig. 5). The edge D-E of the crotch member 22 is then stitched to a corresponding edge D-E upon the member I I. When the crotch member 22 is-thu's sewn to the member II, a leg opening is formed by the two free edges C-E, of the crotch member and the body member II.

In a similar manner but in reverse positions the'crotch member is attached to the body member l2. The cut edge A'B' of the crotch member is stitched along the edge A'B of the body member E2, the edge B'-C of the crotch member is st tched along the cut edge B'C' oi the body member and the edge D'-E' of the crotch member is stitched along the line D'E' of the body member thereby forming a leg opening between C-E of the said crotch and body members. By thus stitching the body members II and I2 along the front seam l5 and the crotch member 22 to the said body members H and l 2 the garment becomes partially completed, that is from the crotch member and leg openings to the arm cut outs and breast pockets. It will be observed (Figs. 4, 5 and 6) that the upper portion of the attachment edges A-B and A'B upon the body members H, l2 and M is formed by cutting into the fabric of the body members while the similar or complementary attachmentedges in the crotch member 22 are formed by the central cut in the crotch member from the rear edge of same.

The breast supporting pockets 23 and 24 are formed of partly squared and partly arcuate cutouts having V-cut-outs 26, 21 and 28 formed in the pocket 23 and V-cut-outs 25', 21' and 28' in the pocket 24 which when stitched together form the cupped shaped breast supporting pockets. The arcuate edge 29 of the breast supporting pocket 23 is stitched to the body member I I along an arcuate cut out portion 39 while the arcuate edge 29' of the breast supporting pocket 24 is stitched to the body member 1 2 along the arcuate cut-out portion 30'.

A shoulder strap 32 is attached at one end to the body member I l and the point 33 directly above the slide fastener opening at the rear of the garment. The opposite end of the strap 32 is attached at the point 34 of the breast supporting pocket 23. A back strap 35 is attached, at one end, to the shoulder strap 32 at 36 and at its other end, is attached, at point 31, to the said body member H where the breast pocket 23 and the body member H meet. Similarly, but in reversed positions, the shoulder strap 32' and back strap 35' are joined to the breast supporting pocket 24 and body member I2, the similar corresponding reference numerals being primed.

With all the parts thus stitched together the assembly is complete and the garment, a swim suit in this instance, may be worn as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Obviously the front seam l may be dispensed with and a one piece cut-out body member may be employed.

In Fig. 3 a swim trunk is shown in which the body member 4| is cut-out as a single piece with a slide fastener unit attached along the edges 52 and 43. In this form a central top 44 takes the place of the pointed projections 45 and 46 shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The remaining cuts and edges however correspond to those of Figs. 5 and 6, with the exception that in Fig. 4, the body member 4| extends to the waist line only. The crotch member 22 is attached in the manner already described for the swim suit, similar refererence numerals being employed to designate the similar parts and joinings.

I claim:

A body garment of the character described comprising a pair of body members united at front and back to form an enclosing body garment, each of the said body members being provided with breast pockets and shoulder straps and formed at their lower front ends with V- shaped pointed portions extending downwardly from the lower edge of the body members, cuts extending into the fabric of the said body members forming a continuation of one side of the said V-shaped portions, the said cut also forming a short attachment edge and with the projeoting edge of the V-shaped portion forming a second attachment edge, a non-attachable edge upon each of the said body members extending from the V-shaped portions to form parts of leg openings, an attachment edge upon each of said body members extending from the said leg opening edges to the rear line of the said body members, a crotch member having a dart formation at one end formed by adjacent, approximately right angularly arranged attachment edges attachable to the said body members along the said attachment edge extending from the said leg opening edges to the rear line of the said body members, non-attachable edges upon each side of the crotch member, approximately parallel to each other, extending from the dart portion to the opposite rear end of the said crotch member, forming parts of the leg openings, attachment edges at the rear end of said crotch member formed by a central cut in the crotch member, attachable to the said body members at the said short attachment edges thereon and forming, with the said non-attachable edges upon the crotch member and the body members, leg openings, the said central cut in the crotch member forming a pair of attachment edges attachable to the said body members along the attachment edges formed by the V-shaped portions in the body members.

CAROLINE BROWN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,178,413 Wiener Oct. 31, 1939 2,204,380 Pray June 11, 1940 2,429,767 Oliensis Oct. 28, 1947 2,450,085 Gantner Sept. 28, 1948 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 478,692 Great Britain Jan. 24, 1938 

